SW - check the satellite imaging of the UK at night and then
see just how much is aglow with man-made stuff. The unlit
parts seem to exist in distinct well-known holiday areas that
are surely diminishing with each passing year now.

Comment is about The Warfield Poems: Patrick B Osada (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

That’s capitalism for you!
The name “Oilseed rape” well describes one of the deleterious effects of capitalism in agriculture; vast monocultures whose lack of diversity are promoted with a callous disregard for the well-being of the natural world and of humans.
Socialism and the Greens anyone?

Comment is about The Warfield Poems: Patrick B Osada (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

And yet, whenever I take a long train journey, out of the window I see mile after mile of fields, occasionally interrupted by towns and cities, not the other way round.

And yes, in many of those fields oilseed rape is growing, but a quick internet search perhaps reveals the reason; it's hugely profitable at around £400 per tonne. Maybe it's free market economics rather than the insidious behaviour of an 'alien crop' that's the problem.

Comment is about The Warfield Poems: Patrick B Osada (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Lamenting the priceless vanishing countryside is the elegy for
our time. Thirty years ago, a West Country newspaper published
my letter forecasting the situation due to the reality of increasing
pressures of housing and its associated infrastructures to meet
that reality - denied at the time - of the rising rate of immigration
into the Realm. This has since been allowed to spiral out of all logical control with a vengeance and the countryside is its hapless hostage. Future generations will look back and form their own judgement about the tragedy that is unfolding in
these precious islands. of ours.

Comment is about The Warfield Poems: Patrick B Osada (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman